Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:40:34 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: "Mark J. Taylor" <mtaylor@cybernet.com> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Define MAXMEM in GENERIC Message-ID: <12196.921649234@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:19:05 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9903141246550.17166-100000@gateway.cybernet.com>
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> For our NetMAX product (shameless plug: http://www.netmax.com/), > which is 2.2.7+ based (we're working on a 3.1 version), we've > added two additional boot options: > 1) -M always perform speculative memory probe > 2) -m never perform speculative memory probe Now there's an idea, though I'd go a little further: Why not add a new variable to the 3-stage loader so you could simply say: boot> set maxmem=64M boot> load /kernel boot> boot (etc) To set the memory size to some exact value (which you might know better than the probe). This strikes me as far more general and easy to understand as well. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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